Join us for a very special show streamed live from Cecil Sharp House. The show looks back at the highlights of 2021, the very first full year of The Official Folk Albums Chart.

Hosted by Matthew Bannister with guest co-host Kitty Macfarlane, the show features live performances and interviews with artists that have featured in the chart over the past year including Spiers and Boden, Katherine Priddy, Gwenifer Raymond, Spell Songs and The Longest Johns.

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“He said you could pluck songs out of the air - pluck them out of the air - and sing them bonny”. The great Northumbrian pipe player Kathryn Tickell describes the River Rede near her home as the backdrop and soundscape to her life. On its bank, she is joined by her Dad Mike to perform music, songs and stories inspired by the beautiful county where he brought her up and introduced her to the folk tradition.

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This month’s  Official Folk Albums Chart Show from Folk on Foot features an interview with Robert Macfarlane and Julie Fowlis about the emotional creative process behind the second Spell Songs album. There’s also music from Celtic Woman, Treetop Flyers, Kathryn Williams and Carol Ann Duffy, The Levellers and Richard Dawson and Circle. Plus a beautiful Wexford carol from Catriona O’Leary and friends.

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The acclaimed singer and songwriter Declan O’Rourke takes us for a scenic walk near his home in the beautiful fishing village of Kinvara on the west coast of Ireland, singing songs inspired by the area as he goes.  Declan’s grandfather, an artist, was born and brought up in Kinvara. On our walk, Declan reflects on his first performance at an open mic night in Dublin where he suffered “an instant addiction” to singing live, on his fascination with the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s and 50s and on the exhibition of his grandfather’s paintings he staged in the village.

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This month’s Official Folk Albums Chart Show from Folk on Foot features an interview with Seth Lakeman about his new album “Make Your Mark” plus music from Christy Moore, Martyn Joseph, Spencer Cullum, Henry Parker, Reg Meuross with Harbottle and Jonas, Hannah James and Toby Kuhn and The Magic Lantern.

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In the shadow of the disused ironstone kilns of the Rosedale Valley in North Yorkshire, Ciderhouse Rebellion - fiddle player Adam Summerhayes and accordionist Murray Grainger - conjure up a soundscape of rare beauty - improvised on the spot. Then they add evocative poetry from Adam’s daughter Jessie to create,  in words and music, a picture of the harshness of Victorian industry in the midst of the beauty of nature.

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This month’s Official Folk Albums Chart Show features interviews with Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan and Grace Petrie and her dog Frank. There’s also music from The Last Inklings, David Keenan, Manran, Will Varley, Danny George Wilson, Afterlight and Ferocious Dog.

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A Bronze Age site on Dartmoor, six musical instruments, a feather, harmonica-enhanced beatboxing, a stone that is said to increase fertility, a fast flowing river, a baby and a caring grandmother - all ingredients of a wonderful walk with the award-winning duo Edgelarks (Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin).

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The Official Folk Albums Chart Show from Folk on Foot features a special backstage performance by Spiers and Boden, Jamie Webster playing dockside in Liverpool, an interview with Sam Kelly about his latest album with the Lost Boys and music from Phil Odgers and Ben Walker and Kirsty Merryn.

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Olivia Chaney wrote many of the songs for her critically acclaimed second solo album whilst living alone without electricity or mains water at her family’s remote and crumbling farmhouse on Hawnby Moor in North Yorkshire. On a hot summer’s day, she takes Matthew Bannister back across the Moor, singing and playing along the way, circled by curlews and lapwings, to share the atmospheric isolation that brought her inspiration.

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